Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time. But they have little chance of making it permanent. The Supreme Court's decision was another vital chapter in one of the greatest success stories the world has ever known: the American Negro's 90-year rise from slavery. The Herman Talmadges are not going to write the last chapter of that story...
...difference in their recent utterances, it must be because of language, not intent. Naturally, Ike continued, all of us want to save Indo-China, but no nation can be saved for the free world unless it wants to be saved. He did not think the free world ought to write off Indo-China, though. He thought we ought to look at this thing with some optimism and some determination...
Among the blunt instruments in President Juan Perón's political knapsack is a 1948 law making it a punishable offense to write or say "anything that offends the dignity of any public official." Time and again under this law of desacato (disrespect), Argentine politicians and journalists have landed in jail for airing even mild anti-Peóon opinions. Said Perón in a speech this month: "We must keep the due dignity of office intact. This is only fair; otherwise systematic attacks will become customary, and who can say how far that will take...
...hamming it." Now on the mend under Spain's warm spring sun, Hemingway, planning to head for his Cuban home next month, had a welcome assurance for his readers: "The doctors said the head injury did not affect the section of the brain I use to write with." In Hollywood, Entrepreneur Elliott Roosevelt announced that, after rummaging through some old personal papers and other documents, he and a collaborator had reconstructed an original screenplay missing since 1923, when its author sent it to Paramount studios. It was called I Have Just Begun to Fight, a stirring film biography...
...Depreciation allowances on aging ships should be boosted, permitting owners to write off the cost faster and encouraging them to order new ships...